Le Financial Times a publié ce 17 mai deux de ses rankings les plus attendus, à savoir son évaluation des meilleurs établissements d’Executive Education, dans les catégories « customised » (programmes sur-mesure pour les entreprises) et « open » (inter-entreprises pour cadres et dirigeants). Voir l'article...
By John Gerritsen. Universities could get a leg-up in international league tables through closer links with the Government's Crown Research Institutes.
An Education and Science Select Committee paper says New Zealand universities are suffering in the rankings because of a perceived lack of high-level research. The three main rankings are the QS, Times Higher Education, and Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) and they place most New Zealand institutions in the top 400 or 500 in the world. More...
By Brendan O’Malley – Managing Editor. In our World Blog, William Patrick Leonard suggests that it is not only the research-based universities which can create a global brand, and there is an alternative to rankings to achieve such recognition.
In Commentary, Philip G Altbach argues that developing the OECD’s AHELO system for assessing higher education learning and outcomes is a waste of time and money. Dmitry Semyonov says plans to dramatically cut the number of higher education institutions in Russia are driven by demographic changes and the fall-out from demand-driven growth by whatever means. Nader Habibi says the number of students in Turkey rose by 91% from 2008 to 2013 and the labour market is not ready for that number of graduate jobseekers.
And in Features, Maria Elena Hurtado reports on the questions being asked following a series of economic scandals in Chile, about whether economics courses focus enough on ethics.
Also this week, in a Special Report, Karen MacGregor reports from the Association of Commonwealth Universities and Southern African Research and Innovation Management Association’s conference on ‘research and innovation for global challenges’ held in Johannesburg last week. Read more...
By Sean Coughlan. The biggest ever global school rankings have been published, with Asian countries in the top five places and African countries at the bottom.
Singapore heads the table, followed by Hong Kong, with Ghana at the bottom.
The UK is in 20th place, among higher achieving European countries, with the US in 28th. More...
The Brookings Institute, the Washington based social science think tank, has produced new rankings of US colleges and universities. These are rather different from conventional rankings such as America’s Best Colleges published by the US News. The basic principle is to compare the career outcomes of graduates with those predicted by student characteristics and the type of institution. Data is derived from a variety of sources including LinkedIn, the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey and the labour market intelligence group, Burning Glass. More...
Times Higher Education (THE) has published its rankings of universities less than fifty years old. The rationale for these rankings is that the THE World University Rankings and other global league tables are necessarily biased to older universities that have had decades or even centuries to establish global reputations, accumulate endowments and establish research networks. More...
Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) have issued the latest edition of their World University Rankings by Subject. There has been a delay since there were questions about the first attempt earlier this year which led to substantial methodological revisions. These rankings are based on varying combinations of four indicators: a survey of academic opinion, a survey of graduate employers, citations per paper, and the h-index, a measure of quantity and quality of research. More...
We cordially invite you to IREG Observatory session on university rankings and internationalization at NAFSA 2015:
Session GS-071, How National Rankings Can Serve as a Tool for Finding Partners Abroad, NAFSA, Wednesday, May 27, 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM.
Speakers: Waldemar Siwinski (IREG Observatory), Laura Rumbley (BostonCollege),
Alex Usher (HE Strategy Associates) Visit us at NAFSA Booth 2605, May 26-29, 2015.
To set a meeting please contact us at secretariat@ireg-observatory.org. More...
Par Aude Bariéty. Le classement du Times Higher Education des 100 meilleures universités créées il y a moins de cinquante ans fait la part belle aux universités asiatiques, australiennes et anglaises. La France compte quant à elle cinq établissement dans ce palmarès. Suite...
By Jonathan Jansen. The world’s best universities know that their international status, reputation and ranking depend on recognising that talent cannot be contained within borders. Their leaders travel around the world to headhunt top academics and stellar postgraduates.
This is not a recent epiphany. Some of the Western world’s top-ranked institutions climbed the ladder during the 20th century by warmly welcoming academics who fled persecution in Europe. More...
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